We are making available audio files of our seminars from May 2013 onwards. We will keep recent seminars on this page, older presentations will continue to be available on our iTunes U channel as podcasts (the seminars available here can also be downloaded from iTunes). The files on the iTunes U site are stored in the collection ‘Centre of South Asian Studies: seminars’ – if you want to receive all future files, then subscribe to the podcast and they will automatically download to your iTunes folder when they become available.
These files do not include the question and answer sessions at the end of the seminars, and in some cases (particularly where a film or piece of music is played) we will cut sections from the audio track for copyright reasons. On occasion it will not be possible for us to make a seminar available at all if the speaker does not give us permission to do so.
Professor Navtej Purewal & Professor Virinder Kalra
Beyond religion in India and Pakistan: gender and caste, borders and boundaries
Introduced by Professor Suit Sivasundaram
Duration: 51 minutes
Mrinalini Venkateswaran (University of Cambridge)
Contested collections: museums in the Punjab princely states, 1947-1957
Introduced by Professor Suit Sivasundaram
Duration: 52 minutes
Dr Layli Uddin (King’s College, London)
Mao-lana Bhashani in Mao’s China: Islamic socialism and subaltern internationalism in Asia
Introduced by Dr Parth Pratim Shil
Duration: 45 minutes
Professor Gyan Prakash (King’s College, London)
Democracy and emergency in India
Introduced by Dr Shruti Kapila
Duration: 54 minutes
Vijayalakshmi Teelock, G.O.S.K. (University of Mauritius)
The CSAS Lecture on Public Affairs
The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: personal reflections with special attention to South Asian labour in Mauritius
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 52 minutes
Dr Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London)
Mayalee Dancing Girl, the East india Company, and the Sambhar Salt Lake 1835-42
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 54 minutes
Professor Romila Thapar (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
Recognising the Other: religion and society in pre-modern North India
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram and Dr Shruti Kapila
Duration: 60 minutes
Dr Ruvani Ranasinha (King’s College, London)
Contemporary Sri Lankan Anglophone writing
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 52 minutes
Professor Francesca Orsini (SOAS)
Literary activism in Cold War India: the short story, the magazine and the world
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 54 minutes
Dr Saumya Saxena (University of Cambridge)
From the courtroom to the courtyard – the public life of personal law in post-independence India
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 47 minutes
Professor Monica Juneja (University of Heidelburg)
The travails of a migrating concept – art in the crossfire between the “religious” and the “aesthetic”
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 56 minutes
Dr Mark Elliot (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) and Mrinalini Venkataswaran (University of Cambridge)
Exhibiting South Asia
Introduced by Professor Sujit Sivasundaram
Duration: 44 minutes